Daily Coping 21 Dec 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-12-21
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Estimating the storage savings by removing columns with NULL value across the table or marking them as SPARSE
In the previous article Find columns with NULL values across the table we discussed that storage space can be saved by removing columns with NULL value across the table...
2020-12-30 (first published: 2020-12-21)
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The 2021 Plan for SQLOrlando
Over the past couple years we’ve been slowly evolving from a fairly adhoc plan of doing what we did last year to a semi structured plan that was mainly...
2020-12-20
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Some Post-PASS Thoughts on Local User Groups
For all the groups the most immediate need is to rescue what they can of the mailing list stored at PASS.org and to have a new landing page and/or...
2020-12-29 (first published: 2020-12-20)
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ETL Antipattern: Skipping The Documentation
Documentation is an asset that is both loathed and loved. Creating technical and business documentation is often looked upon as a tedious chore, something that really ought to be...
2020-12-20
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ETL Antipattern: Skipping The Documentation
Documentation is an asset that is both loathed and loved. Creating technical and business documentation is often looked upon as a tedious chore, something that really ought to be...
2020-12-20
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TF-IDF in .NET for Apache Spark Using Spark ML v2
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Apache Spark has had a machine learning API for quite some time and this has been partially implemented in .NET for Apache...
2020-12-19
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TF-IDF in .NET for Apache Spark Using Spark ML v2
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Apache Spark has had a machine learning API for quite some time and this has been partially implemented in .NET for Apache...
2020-12-19
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ETL Antipattern: Load Processes that Don’t Scale
One of the most significant design considerations in ETL process development is the volume of data to be processed. Most ETL processes have time constraints that require them to...
2020-12-19
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ETL Antipattern: Load Processes that Don’t Scale
One of the most significant design considerations in ETL process development is the volume of data to be processed. Most ETL processes have time constraints that require them to...
2020-12-19
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers